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On the world stage there is a renewed push by national, regional and international IP protection agencies to find innovative solutions, at little or no cost to them, to address increasing criticism that too many patents are granted on inventions that have questionable inventive merit, and that the grant of exclusive rights for obvious developments is having a negative impact on innovation and competition